In addition, Douglas Lowy, M.D., NCI Deputy Director, presented the 2014 NCI Director’s Innovation Awards, which are designed to support the development of novel approaches and technologies for accelerating cancer research. These include Principal Investigator (PI) Awards, which are given to tenure-track or recently tenured PIs (within five years of tenure), with an upper limit of $50,000, and Career Development Awards, which are given to postdoctoral fellows, staff scientists, staff clinicians, and senior scientists, with an upper limit of $10,000. Fourteen DCEG scientists received awards, as listed below: